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At least it's a dry heat right ! LOL !!!

I just looked at the pictures you posted Tim. I see you have one of the "Makapuu" light house. As you stood there if you looked north you would see my in-laws house on the beach.

I got my new solenoid valve in today. Though I won't be able to play with it till early next week. I have a "naughty" tree to deal with Saturday but first I have to go on a 2 hour road trip to get some "ethanol free" gasoline. I truly hate this ethanol gas we have to deal with ! I also...

I had the same problem with mine after converting it. Right now I'm redoing my whole conversion. There is a feedback problem from "A1" the starting relay. The stator needs 12 volt to excite it so I'm going to use one battery to supply this and eliminate the whole "A1" relay. Mine would work and...

I wonder if "wildchild" has seen these pistons ?

I've done most of these mods to my personal M1030 truck (or is it a M1034 ? can't remember) and it works great. I can use it to just tool-around or haul 2 tons of sacked concrete. Some people don't like the firm shifts, but it is reassuring to me that all is going well in the tranny. Of course I...

I'm curious brazengoat. How many automatic transmissions have you rebuilt ? If you have built more then one then you would realize that the seals can be damaged from a faulty install and still pass a air pressure check on the bench. It's after it has been run awhile that the damaged seal will...

I finally got this to up-load ! It is that special rear bushing from "Sonnex" I posted about yesterday. Something is still wrong at this site. I took me over 5 tries to get this one picture up-loaded.

So your Chestypuller ! Your the guy I did all those extra pull-ups and sit-ups for !

I totally believe in having spare parts ! Though my wife says having 4 transmissions is over kill. I don't think so. Thankfully she doesn't know about the fifth one I have stashed away !

Do you happen to remember what the pistons looked like ? How many rings and such ?

I always like working on those large engines. The biggest I ever played with was a 16 cylinder Detroit. Basically 2ea. 8V92's bolted together.

The best clutch plate would be the 6 disc model for the 5 ton, but the next best would be the 5 disc model. The best clutch pressure plate is a toss-up. The standard 4 finger model is a good unit, it just needs to be adjusted. The 3 finger model is also good and more then likely you will not...

Your correct, though I wouldn't use a aftermarket seller to prove my point as they have a "personal" agenda ie: to sell products. The temp of the transmission is kepted pretty close to optimal by using the radiator cooling. If the fluid is cold then the radiator will warm it up. If it's too hot...

TRANSMISSION OIL COOLING SYSTEM BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The transmissions of many modern cars and trucks employ torque converters. Heat produced by the torque converter on the oil used to transmit power must be dispersed. A conventional method involves pumping the transmission oil through...

So we can safely say you are Not an engineer or a mechanic by trade then. All I'm saying is my experience of over 40 years as a "ASE Certified Master Mechanic" says otherwise to your learned opinion. But like "Skinny" says this is just a TH400, a 60 year old design. The reason they went to the...

You might have to start driving with the transfer-case in low on these hills then.

Actually it was cost. They worked great but since GM went with the heavy duty case on most off road 4X4 trucks they felt they could get away without it.

I never heard of a "super wide ratio" SM465 transmission. In fact they have only one standard set of gears for this unit unless some aftermarket manufacture has stepped up and made them. I do remember someone making gear sets for the SM420 but I cannot remember if they ever made them for the...